⁸ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.^(A)

³² These are the families of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.^(A)

²⁵ To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,^[a] for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.^(A)

⁹ Therefore it was called Babel,^[a] because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.^(A)

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”^(A)